Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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FlightSafety International (Booth 4245) will offer training for the Airbus Helicopters EC145 in a new Level D simulator at Metro Aviation’s Helicopter Flight Training Center in Shreveport, La. This is the first simulator of its kind in North America and was developed in cooperation with Metro. Training will begin later this year and FlightSafety will provide initial and recurrent training under its Part 142 single certificate. 
The new FS1000 simulator built for the EC145 is equipped with FlightSafety’s Vital 1100 visual system, CrewView collimated glass-mirror display and 60-inch electric motion base. The Vital 1100 visual system provides detailed mission-specific imagery with improved scene content and environmental effects. The CrewView glass-mirror increases visual clarity and brightness while eliminating image degradation and distortion in the boundary areas. 
Training for the Airbus Helicopters H135 is currently offered by FlightSafety in Dallas. Simulators for the Airbus Helicopters AS350B2 and H135 are now available in Shreveport. FlightSafety’s new learning center in Denver will provide training for the Airbus Helicopters AS350B3, H130, H135 and the Bell 407GXP using Level D-qualified simulators. FlightSafety also offers training for helicopters manufactured by Finmeccanica, Bell and Sikorsky and offers courses through its learning centers in Dallas, Lafayette, West Palm Beach; Stavanger, Norway; and Farnborough, UK.

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

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News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

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News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

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